BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100901T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100901T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160947Z CREATED:20231030T213131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160947Z UID:25458-1283302800-1283302800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Data release: Prescription Drug Use Continues to Increase (U.S. Data for 2007-2008) DESCRIPTION:The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a brief of national data from 2007 and 2008 which shows that prescription drug use continues to increase. \nTo access embargoed and password protected materials\, reporters must contact the CDC/NCHS Press Room at 301-458-4800 or register with the NCHS Media Listserv. To register click here. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/data-release-prescription-drug-use-continues-to-increase-u-s-data-for-2007-2008/ LOCATION:Florida CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100908T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100908T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160946Z CREATED:20231030T213131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160946Z UID:25459-1283907600-1283907600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Data release: Emergency Department Visits for Chest Pain and Abdominal Pain (U.S.\, 1999-2008) DESCRIPTION:The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release a data brief covering emergency department visits for chest and abdominal pain between 1999 and 2008. \nTo access embargoed and password protected materials\, reporters must contact the CDC/NCHS Press Room at 301-458-4800 or register with the NCHS Media Listserv. To register click here. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/data-release-emergency-department-visits-for-chest-pain-and-abdominal-pain-u-s-1999-2008/ LOCATION:Florida CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100915T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100915T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160801Z CREATED:20231030T213132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160801Z UID:25460-1284512400-1284512400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Data release: Educating Teenagers About Sex in the U.S. DESCRIPTION:The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a data brief on educating teenagers about sex in the U.S. \nTo access embargoed and password protected materials\, reporters must contact the CDC/NCHS Press Room at 301-458-4800 or register with the NCHS Media Listserv. To register click here. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/data-release-educating-teenagers-about-sex-in-the-u-s/ LOCATION:Florida CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100920T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100920T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160800Z CREATED:20231030T213134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160800Z UID:25463-1284944400-1284944400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Medical errors and the new movement toward transparency DESCRIPTION:You're invited to an after-work event sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists. \nDr. David Mayer\, co-producer of the award-winning film\, "The Faces of Medical Error … From Tears to Transparency: The Story of Lewis Blackman\," and a leader on transparency in health care. Mayer is associate dean for the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine\, co-executive director for UIC's Institute for Patient Safety Excellence and a practicing anesthesiologist. He has been active in patient safety and health care risk reduction strategies throughout his career\, and\, along with partner Dr. Tim McDonald\, has co-founded Transparent Health\, an organization dedicated to the prevention of patient harm. McDonald is the chief safety and risk officer for health affairs at the University of Illinois and co-executive director for UIC's Institute for Patient Safety Excellence. Most recently\, McDonald and Mayer were awarded a $3 million federal grant to implement and evaluate patient safety efforts on a larger scale. \nWhen: Monday\, Sept. 206 p.m. networking\, refreshments6:30 p.m. program \nWhere: Room C219\, Columbia College\, 33 E. Congress\, Chicago(northwest corner of Congress and Wabash) \nThanks to the Columbia College Journalism Department for providing the space! URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/medical-errors-and-the-new-movement-toward-transparency/ LOCATION:Florida CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100921T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100921T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160758Z CREATED:20231030T213135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160758Z UID:25464-1285030800-1285030800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:The Impact of economic stimulus money on medical research at UCSF DESCRIPTION:Event hosted by AHCJ's SF Bay Area Chapter \nIs federal stimulus spending creating the millions of new jobs promised by President Obama? Are mechanisms against fraud and to promote transparency in place? The debate over the massive Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is becoming louder and brasher 18 months after its passage and two months before the mid-term Congressional elections. \nAccording to the official government website (www.recovery.gov)\, $202 billion for 12\,000 contracts\, grants\, and awards were issued as of June 30. Of the total\, $10 billion was directed to the National Institutes of Health. It is spending the funds on thousands of medical research projects and scientific infrastructure awarded to individual scientists\, one grant at a time. \nThe initiative has brought full-employment to scientists at the University of California\, San Francisco. As of July 31\, its researchers were awarded 280 ARRA-funded grants valued at $66.2 million. It laboratories are humming with researchers who are creating the next generation of genetically inspired drugs and personalized therapies. \nThe situation offers excellent health care reporting opportunities that combine economics\, politics\, and medical science. If you have never covered UCSF\, this is your opportunity to learn how. \nUCSF will showcase three ARRA-funded projects that exemplify the range of groundbreaking research under way on its campuses. Principal investigators for three multi-million dollar projects will describe how their discoveries may save lives and stoke the economy. \nOur speakers \n\n\nKristen Bole\, biotech news manager\, UCSF Public Affairs\, will provide an overview of ARRA funding at UCSF and introduce you to the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT)\, a web-based method for identifying groundbreaking projects at UCSF and other medical research institutions. \n\n\n\n\nNeil Risch\, PhD\, director of the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics\, received a $25 million grant in partnership with Kaiser Permanente to fund the research and creation of the largest genetic health care database ever undertaken. Through this project\, UCSF will conduct a genome-wide analysis of DNA samples from 100\,000 Kaiser Permanente member volunteers\, representing decades of historical clinical\, medication and health-related information on the largest and most diverse genetic population ever studied. The project will support 22 staff and research positions at Kaiser and UCSF in the first year alone\, as well as providing key funding to nine current faculty and physician researchers in the two institutions. \n\n\n\n\nS. Claiborne Johnston\, MD\, PhD\, physician and director of the UCSF Stroke Service\, received a $12.4 million cooperative agreement to evaluate an acute intervention in patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIA)\, which occur about 250\,000 to 350\,000 times each year in the US. Johnston will lead a multicenter clinical trial to find effective therapies to reduce the overall burden of stroke on patients with TIA. These funds also will create four full-time research positions at UCSF\, six others at partnering institutions\, and positions for 25 full-time coordinators throughout the trial sites. \n\n\n\n\nGeoffrey Manley\, MD\, PhD\, a neurotrauma surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital and co-director of the UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center\, received a $4.1 million Grand Opportunity award to fund a potential framework for all future Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) research\, TBI is one of the greatest unmet needs in public health and is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Manley will lead an effort to test and refine standards for data collection in TBI studies\, suitable for use across the broad spectrum of TBI\, and use emerging technology to explore novel approaches for TBI classification and outcomes. These funds also are creating 14 full-time positions and eight part-time jobs. \n\n\nA question and answer session will follow the presentations. \nTuesday\, Sept. 21 6-8 p.m. (panel will begin at 6:30) \nUCSF Mission Bay Campus Byers Hall Room 212 1700 Fourth Street (corner of 16th) San Francisco \nEnter via Genentech Hall (adjacent building) from the quad and check in at the security desk. Street parking is available; paid parking is in the lot/garage across the street. [Map | Directions] \nLight refreshments will be served. This event is FREE; all AHCJ members\, local health journalists\, journalism students are welcome. Please RSVP to Bay.Area.AHCJ@gmail.com. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-impact-of-economic-stimulus-money-on-medical-research-at-ucsf/ LOCATION:Florida CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100922T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100922T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160758Z CREATED:20231030T213135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160758Z UID:25465-1285117200-1285117200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:IOM workshop on Gulf oil spill health effects DESCRIPTION:The federal Institute of Medicine is holding a workshop on monitoring (and understanding) the health effects of the Gulf oil spill. \nAccording to the release\, the mission of the workshop will be to "provide scientific and community feedback on the design and methodology to be used in the National Institutes of Health's Gulf Worker Study." A draft plan of the study can be found here. \nFurther details from the release: \n8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT Sept. 22 in the Snowy Egret Room of the Grand Hyatt-Tampa Bay\, 2900 Bayport Drive\, Tampa\, Fla. \nRegistration is limited to 100 participants. \nAn agenda and registration information are available online. \nReporters: For more information about the workshop\, contact the National Academies' Office of News and Public Information at tel. 202-334-2138 or e-mail news@nas.edu. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/iom-workshop-on-gulf-oil-spill-health-effects/ LOCATION:Florida CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100929T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100929T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160756Z CREATED:20231030T213132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160756Z UID:25461-1285722000-1285722000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Data release: Electronic Medical Record Adoption and Use in Home Health and Hospice DESCRIPTION:The National Center for Health Statistics is tentatively scheduled to release a data brief covering electronic medical record adoption and use in home health and hospice. \nTo access embargoed and password protected materials\, reporters must contact the CDC/NCHS Press Room at 301-458-4800 or register with the NCHS Media Listserv. To register click here. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/data-release-electronic-medical-record-adoption-and-use-in-home-health-and-hospice/ LOCATION:Florida CATEGORIES:None END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR